how to bind multiple items in dropdown statically

Hello ,

For MVC
You can add one List<selectlistitem> property to your model, And assign the hard coded values to the list.
E.g.

List<SelectListItem> Countries= new List<SelectListItem>();

            result.Add(new SelectListItem() { Text = "India", Value = "India" });
            result.Add(new SelectListItem() { Text = "ShriLanka", Value="ShriLanka" });
            result.Add(new SelectListItem() { Text = "Nepal", Value = "Nepal" });

and assign this list to your dropdown.

<asp:DropDownList ID="DropDownList1" runat="server">
    <asp:ListItem Value="All">All</asp:ListItem>
    <asp:ListItem Value="Valid">Valid</asp:ListItem>
    <asp:ListItem Value="Expired">Expired</asp:ListItem>
</asp:DropDownList>

or by coding

DropDownList1.Items.Insert(0, new ListItem("All", "All"));
DropDownList1.Items.Insert(1, new ListItem("Valid", "Valid"));
DropDownList1.Items.Insert(2, new ListItem("Expired", "Expired"));

one way is to put all data in dataset/datatable and bind the data to dropdownlist like ddl.DataSource=dataset
ddl.DataBind()

or u can user ddl.Items.Add method

If it is MVC, follow below things

In view, add below statement

@Html.DropDownListFor(q => q.Filter.Status, Model.ListOfStatuses)

In service layer add below method

public IEnumerable<system.web.mvc.selectlistitem> GetStatuses()
{
	yield return new System.Web.Mvc.SelectListItem() { Value = "", Text = "All", Selected = true };
	yield return new System.Web.Mvc.SelectListItem() { Value = "A", Text = "Active", Selected = false };
	yield return new System.Web.Mvc.SelectListItem() { Value = "I", Text = "Inactive", Selected = false };
}</system.web.mvc.selectlistitem>

and call this

model.ListOfStatuses = GetStatuses();

Hope this helps